Adult female rats who have never before encountered rat pups will start to show maternal behaviors after being confined with a pup for about seven days. This period can be considerably shortened by disabling the female's sense of smell or by removing the scent-producing glands of the pup.
Which of the following hypotheses best explains the contrast described above? - AThe sense of smell in adult female rats is more acute than that in rat pups.
- BThe amount of scent produced by rat pups increases when they are in the presence of a female rat that did not bear them.
- CFemale rats that have given birth are more affected by olfactory cues than are female rats that have never given birth.
- DA female rat that has given birth shows maternal behavior toward rat pups that she did not bear more quickly than does a female rat that has never given birth.
- EThe development of a female rat's maternal interest in a rat pup that she did not bear is inhibited by the odor of the pup. 在B和E中纠结。看了答案后还是有些迷惑。原文的重心是减少female的嗅觉和移开pup身上的释放气味的腺对maternal behavior 下降的影响。那原文的意思就是说female喜欢pup身上的气味吗,没有气味就没有maternal behavior,有气味就有maternal behavior。那B选项说pup在female面前会释放大量的气味,那female就很喜欢啊。为什么不对呢。对于E选项说pups的气味会抑制rat 的
maternal interest。我觉得不对啊,pups的气味应该利于maternal interest才对啊怎么会是抑制呢
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